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High and Low: Stunning artworks show off natural beauty of Snowdonia National Park

This beautiful set of photographs is by Bristol-based videographer, Richard Broomhall, in collaboration with painter and musician, Anthony Garratt. Entitled High and Low (or Uchel ac Isel in Welsh), the images – featuring installation-style paintings, and the accompanying video, explore the creation of the peaks and troughs of Snowdonia National Park, Wales.

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Via direct submission | All images courtesy of Richard Broomhall & Anthony Garratt

Via direct submission | All images courtesy of Richard Broomhall & Anthony Garratt

Broomhall explains: "Uchel ac Isel features two industrial-scale paintings, created by Anthony Garratt in the Welsh landscapes in which they now reside. One double-sided painting floats high on Llyn Llydaw lake, dwarfed by Mount Snowdon's grandeur and flickering in the wind, the other rests low, deep beneath the mountains in an abandoned slate mining cavern at Llechwedd.

"Each work relates materially to the heritage of its location and is continually evolving in relation to the elements around it. The floating Llyn Llydaw piece blooms and oxidises as the copper and iron mixed with the paint are torn by the wind, rain and the waters of the lake. Deep in Llechwedd slate caverns, below Blaenau Ffestiniogg, another piece rusts, as iron and slate bleed through its composition adapting to the damp darkness like countless miners before it.

"How we consume landscape, what it means to our heritage and how we look at it are all questions these works raise."

You can watch a trailer for the film here. To see more of Broomhall's work, visit www.fracturedether.co.uk.

Dark slate mining cavern at Llechwedd with Anthony Garratt's painting visible through the central opening, framed by weathered rock walls
Anthony Garratt's industrial-scale painting suspended in an abandoned slate mining cavern at Llechwedd, with rough stone walls surrounding it
A double-sided painting floats on Llyn Llydaw lake, surrounded by snow-capped mountains and grassy slopes in Snowdonia National Park, Wales
Figure silhouetted on a vast shingle beach with mountains and dramatic cloudy sky beyond, a still pool of water reflecting the landscape
Aerial view of three mountain lakes in Snowdonia with snow-capped peaks, brown moorland and a dark painting floating on the middle lake
Aerial view of Llyn Llydaw lake in Snowdonia with mountains beyond, showing the floating installation painting by Anthony Garratt on the water's surface
A gravel path winds alongside a still lake beneath steep, barren mountains under grey skies in Snowdonia, with a small red vehicle visible in the distance
Man standing beside a large white rectangular painting installation on moorland overlooking a mountain lake in misty Snowdonia
Artist Anthony Garratt applies paint to a large canvas laid on the ground overlooking Llyn Llydaw lake with Mount Snowdon rising behind in mist and cloud
A group of people gather around a large blue and yellow boat on the shore of a mountain lake under grey skies in Snowdonia
A large floating painting on Llyn Llydaw lake surrounded by moorland with mountains in the distance under a bright sun and blue sky in Snowdonia
Artist Anthony Garratt applies paint to an industrial-scale installation artwork against a weathered, rust-coloured wall in Snowdonia
Man holding a rope attached to a large blue-painted canvas floating in a mountain lake, with peaks in the background under cloudy skies
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